Example sentences of "you know [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Are they too eager to help the client ? ( 7 ) Do you have a system for keeping the witness informed of the progress of the claim where trial is likely to be delayed ? ( 8 ) Do you know dates when the witness may not be available to give evidence ? ( 9 ) Do you have sufficient information to contact the witness at short notice on the eve of trial ?
2 Ded , do you know rats ?
3 ‘ How do you know trees do n't ? ’
4 Right , why do n't we erm give Derwent two free bookings , you know bookings that have already happened or are about to happen for free ,
5 You know both sides were very happy you know it was up with the company or down with the company you know , and I think certainly the younger lads sort of saw it as an infringement upon their future , you know we 've all got mortgages and the o older men who 'd been working since the quarry started you know were gon na see a drop in their standard of living , so I think you know people were getting a bit upset you know that a n a new fella h a new face had come in , and all of a sudden you know changes were being made that were gon na hurt everybody financially .
6 Freezing , something when er a liquid is freezing and it changes when it is you know changes in the physical sense of the
7 And that would be you know companies you 're probably already familiar with , you know people like M and G , erm Fidelity , erm er .
8 No no I thought it would be I thought it would be er out there meeting you know companies or whatever
9 Erm what I wanted to say is , erm , in response to the lady in the red , was that a lot of feminists have a lot to answer for because , in the sense , men erm can be discriminat , well not discriminated but we can say things about men which are generalizations , whereas if a , one man says one generalized thing about a woman , then he 's just , you know chauvinists is everything , and he 's got a really bad name to him , so I think it 's got to be looked at from both sides .
10 and you know mushrooms are so light
11 You know women better than I do — tell me . ’
12 And this also has got to be encouraged through the schools , so that er , young er you know women , leaving school , going into career , will realise that they will be accepted into a previously male dominated industry .
13 Yeah , miles better , for the good of the country they 're not good for you , women should n't have the vote you know women should n't get the vote , I think they should bring back , bring back just men having vote , women do n't get a say as far as I 'm concerned that 's a good idea do n't you think ?
14 So then John , he tries all sorts of things out , you know doughnuts and things like that and it 's a thermostatically controlled
15 My interest in North Plains people in 1750 to 1850 which is about the same period for the you know cowboys goes back many years to my pre- writing days .
16 You can use erm er cut and paste , you know blocks and
17 Er anything special you know that sor children growing up and you know fathers not seeing them or wives having babies wh which you know they had n't seen perhaps till they were two years old .
18 Yes , we 've got girls in the band as well , you know relatives of the families and , and girls that are work will do work in the Fire Brigade , in the control room and so on .
19 you can take you know horses to water , but
20 No I mean , when he was like you know Boys from Brazil , I mean
21 If that 's the case you know resources should n't be going into , into that particular industry or there is not a direct economic case apart from to the social costs that they be involved in .
22 As you know arms control negotiations are incredibly detailed and rather arcane subjects , er so it 's a little tricky to see the wood for the trees in this one , but er arms control , obviously C F E — the Conventional Forces in Europe — er is very much an issue that will be on the table .
23 I , I mean it may not be right , but it , I mean as I think you can see it has a kind of logic about it , erm and , and i it may be that it , it 's not the right explanation , but the very fact that erm we 're suggesting it , I think shows that erm again it 's naive to think that motherhood is a kind of er is a one-sided affair where you know mothers sacrifice themselves er for their offspring , because nature demands it .
24 At the very least this theory about post-natal depressions shows it 's not that simple , the mother has a self-interest as well as the offspring and our modern insight into parental investment theory shows us that we have to take every individual 's self-interest seriously we 're not committing th the , the crude errors of group selectionism and saying you know mothers exist for the benefit of society to have children , they should put up with it .
25 Because it 's very , I mean you know mathematicians have written books about this , erm and yeah kids of five or six are quite happily adding and taking away until they get to negative numbers , until someone says ah I 'm going to add to that money you 've got there , I 'm gon na add minus seven .
26 You know ropes ? ’
27 It 's not a purse love it 's for erm soap and you know toothbrushes and things like that .
28 You know soldiers , Sir John , they 're worse than sailors .
29 And er me job there was turning sock what you 'd call halfoes you know mens ' socks , from one side to the other on a piece of wood , you know you 'd pull the stocking onto this wood , put your finger on the back , turned it over and threw it down .
30 eh ? what I was thinking of doing was getting a , have a go aye you know builders merchant , pick up some plaster if its a wet day and start doing some plastering in there
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